To
overcome procrastination it is important that you know which causes
this habit has. So let's look what could be these causes.
The
first cause of procrastination could be that you ask to much from
yourself, by setting to many goals at once. Sometimes it is possible to
combine several goals or tasks to accomplish your goals, but be careful
in scheduling your time. YOu need a good goal
setting plan.
The second cause could be
fear. Look if one or more of the following fears are teasing you:
Fear
of what other people could say. The fear to be rejected by people who
are important to you when you act upon this particular goal you want to
achieve. Or the fear that they don't believe that you could accomplish
this goal, the fear to be ridiculed.
The
fear of
commencing work. All beginning is difficult especially when it is a big
goal you have in mind. You know there will be tasks you should do to
achieve your goal that you don't like to do and you don't want to spend
time upon those things. So you don't start at all, and you find many
excuses to do other small tasks that do not have to do anything with
your main goal.
The fear to
fail. This fear for many
people is the biggest cause of procrastination. It is a fear that has
his roots in social fear. Ask yourself for who you are afraid when you
should fail. What is the worst thing that can happen?
People
who are well known by their success made more failures than that they
succeeded along the road to their success. By learning from their
failures they achieved their success. They did overcome
procrastination, be sure they have had to deal with it.
Procrastination
habit
If
procrastination persist a remaining problem, you probably are
sabotaging yourself. That means you have unconscious fears or other
feelings who don't align with the goal you have set consciously. To
overcome procrastination, look if this is true for you.
These
fears can be one of the above mentioned, with the difference that you
don't know them, you are not aware of them. Other unconscious causes of
procrastination might be:
The
fear of succeeding. If you succeed, what are the consequences? Where
are you afraid of?
The
fear of giving up something. Everything has its price, where are you
afraid of of giving up? Sometimes it can be that you don't want to give
up the grief about things that happened in your past, and as long as you
live in your past you cannot go forward.
In
that case you should find a way to cope with it and give it a place in
your life by which this no longer limits you. How much energy or effort
do you require to change your thoughts? What is the degree of conflict
between your old and new thinking?
Feeling
not worthy.
If you don't feel worthy the goal you have set, you will always
procrastinate. You will always dreaming about your desires, make plans,
even make the decision to perform them, but never act upon them in an
ongoing way.
The fear of
responsibility. If you think
about your goal as something that's "not done", especially not by you,
you will not realize it because you are afraid of the reactions you
expect. But you would appreciate it very well if someone else would
give it to you or would made your dreams real.
In
this case there are limited beliefs, values you have been taught as a
child, most of the time. You seem to need agreement from other(s),
which means that you should raise your self esteem, so you can
allow yourself to live depending upon your own values.
Ask
yourself about any cause that fits you: "What is the payoff for keeping
this habit or feeling?". You would not keep it if there was no payoff.
Now
you find the roots it is easier to overcome procrastination and find
solutions.
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